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Definition of "tin-pot" [tin-pot]

  • Insignificant or unimportant; minor. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "tin-pot" in a sentence
  • "The region's history has been so fraught and often incomprehensibly savage that simply reporting the plain facts—the slave trade and sugar plantations, the depredations of tin-pot dictators, the numerous noxious creatures—requires considerable dialing back simply to make it believable."
  • "He described them as filled with, third-world variety Runyonesque people, tin-pot dictators."
  • "The GOP can then share responsibility with Mr. Obama for losing in Libya and emboldening a tin-pot dictator."
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